Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:
Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:
- how the word is used
- frequency of use
- it is used more often in oral or written speech
- word translation options
- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is longshoreman - definition
OCCUPATION OF LOADING AND UNLOADING SHIPS
Longshoreman; Dock labourer; Dock laborer; Longshoremen; Stevedoring; Docker (occupation); Dockworker; Longshoreperson; Wharfie; Dock-worker; Dock worker; Stevadore; Dock Labourer; Stevedores; Dockworkers; Along-shortman; Loading and unloading; Longshore worker; Longshoring; Stevedoring firm; Waterside worker
![Docker lashing down cargo aboard a [[container ship]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dockworker lashing a container.jpg?width=200 "Docker lashing down cargo aboard a [[container ship]]")
![New York]], Continental Piers, 1959](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The M48 Patton tank is lifted gently aboard TS Nabob, NY - 1959.jpg?width=200 "New York]], Continental Piers, 1959")
![At anchor, two [[barges]] with cranes (floating derricks) at port](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hong Kong 2005 auf Reede, zwei Bargen mit Kränen an Backbord fest.jpg?width=200 "At anchor, two [[barges]] with cranes (floating derricks) at port")
longshoreman
(longshoremen)
A longshoreman is a person who works in the docks, loading and unloading ships. (AM; in BRIT, use docker
)
)
N-COUNT
longshoreman
¦ noun (plural longshoremen) N. Amer. a docker.
Longshoreman
·noun One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Wikipedia
Stevedore
A stevedore (), also called a longshoreman, a docker or a dockworker, is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships, trucks, trains or airplanes.
After the shipping container revolution of the 1960s, the number of dockworkers required declined by over 90%.
Examples of use of longshoreman
1. John Bartlett Bartlett‘s runway show featured clothes fit for a lumberjack, longshoreman and a New England college professor.
2. But four years later, terrorists can still put a dirty bomb in one of those,‘‘ the longshoreman says.
3. "What used to take 20 men all day to do now takes 20 minutes," said Toby Valmas, a longshoreman whose Greek immigrant father preceded him on the docks.
4. And to be a part of it, and to say that you were a part of it in your small way, is still pretty significant." The daughter of a Philadelphia longshoreman, Griner escorted VIP Bradford M.
5. A longshoreman for a decade, Dhillon said the April hard–hat policy meant that some of the jobs he used to have access to on the waterfront are no longer available to him, it said.